Inquiry into a National Mining Tax
Information about the Inquiry
On 30 September 2010, the Select Committee on New Taxes initiated an inquiry into the following matter:
(a) new taxes proposed for Australia, including:
(i) the minerals resource rent tax and expanded petroleum resource rent tax,
(ii) a carbon tax, or any other mechanism to put a price on carbon, and
(iii) any other new taxes proposed by Government, including significant changes to existing tax arrangements;
(b) the short and long term impact of those new taxes on the economy, industry, trade, jobs, investment, the cost of living, electricity prices and the Federation;
(c) estimated revenue from those new taxes and any related spending commitments;
(d) the likely effectiveness of these taxes and related policies in achieving their stated policy objectives;
(e) any administrative implementation issues at a Commonwealth, state and territory level;
(f) an international comparison of relevant taxation arrangements;
(g) alternatives to any proposed new taxes, including direct action alternatives; and
(h) any other related matter.
Submissions should be received by 30 April 2011.
The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to newtaxes@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.
Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:
Senior Clerk's Office
Department of the Senate
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3540 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5719 or by email to newtaxes@aph.gov.au.
Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.
Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.
For further information, contact: Senior Clerk's Office
Department of the Senate
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia